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This is a positive action focused account - currently in holding. I support #StopFundingHate. I write occasionally for Bylines Scotland. Please see AlisonKMurray for the port from Twitter. CSIPublishingLtd for books, etc

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19/01/2025
The new gold rush: why the precious metal has lost none of its allure
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The new gold rush: why the precious metal has lost none of its allure
The price of gold continues to rise, but who buys it, and where do they keep it? We head to Geneva’s secret vault and meets the dealers There’s a secrecy to the specifics of our planned rendezvous, when I meet a sharp-suited Egon von Greyerz in Zurich…
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19/01/2025
Marcus Rashford’s holiday scheme for kids wins reprieve from spending cuts
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Marcus Rashford’s holiday scheme for kids wins reprieve from spending cuts
Concerns had been mounting over future of £200m a year scheme providing food and activities for vulnerable children Ministers are to safeguard the Marcus Rashford-inspired scheme providing food and activities to vulnerable children during school holidays…
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19/01/2025
An information dark age is upon us. I’m logging off | Stewart Lee
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An information dark age is upon us. I’m logging off | Stewart Lee
As Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos attempt to reshape our reality, my advice is to avoid their toxic platforms and wait it out Wow! That escalated quickly. Last time I filed my supposedly funny column, only two weeks ago, Los Angeles wasn’t on fire;…
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19/01/2025
Is this the way to fix social care in England?
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Is this the way to fix social care in England?
As yet another review is launched, a single council is offering an alternative to rationing support for the most needy Florence Mahon spent a decade running around after peers at the House of Lords. As head housekeeper, she was responsible for problems…
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Alison writes and edits stuff @akmurray.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Lady Liberty needs more than a new coat of paint.
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Alison writes and edits stuff @akmurray.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Where do I sign up?
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Alison writes and edits stuff @akmurray.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
I think you'll find that it was the voters who failed the USA in that 36% did not vote at all... More than any other party by over 5%.
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Alison writes and edits stuff @akmurray.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Brexit is a more likely cause. Costs for servicing, spares, etc rocketing. Also, the state of England roads has been in the headlines. Some Scottish rural roads are like playing dodgems with the potholes. The CON strategy to fix the (same) potholes every 6 weeks is not enough.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19/01/2025
‘This is about witnesses speaking their truth’: Prince Harry gets his day in court against Murdoch’s newspapers
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‘This is about witnesses speaking their truth’: Prince Harry gets his day in court against Murdoch’s newspapers
The Duke of Sussex and the former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson are the last two claimants still suing An extraordinary personal legal battle which has been years in preparation is to pit one of the most famous members of the British royal family…
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Hannah Howe @hannahhowe.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
19 January 1963 More than 200 vehicles were marooned on Stainmore, Westmorland, yesterday, as blizzards virtually isolated Scotland from England. Many of the drivers abandoned their cars and lorries, and spent the night in a moorland cafe.
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Plamen Neykov 🇪🇺 🇩🇪 🇺🇦 #FBPE @plamenneykov.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
It definitely feels that way!
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Hazel Preller @pierkisser.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
This year I'm posting 1 positive thing a day that makes me smile or go wow. Let's share a year of lovely things #365for2025 Day 3 - skies
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Alison writes and edits stuff @akmurray.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Hmm... Wonder if any of them will stop the direct debits which fund Far-Rage's foreign excursions... Insulting his bread and butter donors, guess now he's be Musked, he doesn't need to keep up appearances.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Agree or disagree?
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Alison writes and edits stuff @akmurray.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Am I the only one thinking Frump on 20th Jan?
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Dr Tony O’Sullivan @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
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Alison writes and edits stuff @akmurray.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
@nestauk.bsky.social @stopfundinghate.bsky.social Are my top two picks for doing something good. Who do you suggest I add for a starter pack?
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Alison writes and edits stuff @akmurray.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I goofed. Apologies to all who followed me on this account (tried to have a shorter handle, but it doesn't work well). See bsky.app/profile/csip... for books, etc and bsky.app/profile/alis... for the teleport from twitter, or x, or whatever it will be called next.
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Being Reese @beingreese.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
The Handmaid's Tale is a good book. But did you know that there's a book written by a Black woman about a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and societal decline. The book was published in 1993, but is set in 2024 following a presidential election 👀 #BookSky #BlackBookSky
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Alison writes and edits stuff @akmurray.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
GREEN ROOM
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@nestauk.bsky.social @stopfundinghate.bsky.social Are my top two picks for doing something good. Who do you suggest I add for a starter pack?
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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 17/11/2024
“Visit a heat pump” - I LOVE this idea. I expect that the greatest champions of clean energy are the people who live with the tech. Next editions could be “have a spin in my E-bike”, “look at my PV app!!” and “come for a drive in my EV”.
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Jonathan @renewableenergy.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Stellar news! Moment Energy, will take used EV batteries & make grid-scale energy storage batteries via a new gigawatt factory. Moment Energy plans to produce up to 1 gigawatt-hour of storage products there each year, easily making the facility the largest of its kind in the U.S. #energysky
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Alison writes and edits stuff @akmurray.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Committing / allowing less FRAUD will go a long way to plugging holes the CONs fug imho. The difference: Labour seems willing to learn, rather than seek to personally profit. Capping MP expenses and removing the right for them to bill taxpayers for their energy costs would be good imho
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 17/11/2024
As global leaders meet to discuss efforts to address climate change, CFOs, too, face tough decisions around sustainability.
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CFOs Weigh In as COP29, Trump’s Election Fuel Climate Debate
Plus, AstraZeneca’s Aradhana Sarin discusses margins, the Inflation Reduction Act and obesity drugs.
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NPR @npr.org · 17/11/2024
"Some may seek to deny or delay the clean energy revolution that's underway in America, but nobody — nobody — can reverse it," Biden said. But Trump has vowed to roll back those plans.
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Biden marks his climate legacy during Amazon visit, asserting 'nobody' can reverse it
"Some may seek to deny or delay the clean energy revolution that's underway in America, but nobody — nobody — can reverse it," Biden said. But Trump has vowed to roll back those plans.
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 17/11/2024
My EV delivers plenty of perks... and parking tickets: Many public charging locations, which are reserved for EVs that need a boost, can provide a convenient pit stop in busy areas
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My EV delivers plenty of perks... and parking tickets
Many public charging locations, which are reserved for EVs that need a boost, can provide a convenient pit stop in busy areas
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CBS News | Breaking news, top stories & today's latest headlines @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy · 17/11/2024
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What is Bluesky, the online platform welcoming users leaving Elon Musk's X?
Bluesky reported one million new users after President-elect Trump tapped X owner Musk for his next administration.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18/11/2024
Declining standards of care for stroke patients must be reversed, says charity
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Declining standards of care for stroke patients must be reversed, says charity
Figures from audit of England, Wales and Northern Ireland show some basic care now worse than decade ago Ministers are being urged to improve declining care for stroke patients to lower the risk of death and disability as new figures show rising cases,…
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18/11/2024
Study to look at why some people with aggressive cancer are ‘super-survivors’
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Study to look at why some people with aggressive cancer are ‘super-survivors’
NHS centres join search for patients who have lived much longer than expected, in hope of developing new therapies Doctors have launched a major study to understand why a small percentage of cancer patients beat the odds and survive long after being…
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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
History of Philosophy in China, episode 17: Confucian Epistemology! Should ethical understanding be understood as “knowing how,” or even “knowing to,” rather than “knowing that”? #philsky #confucianism #epistemology www.historyofphilosophy.net/confucianism...
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17. Knowing Me, Knowing You: Confucian Epistemology | History of Philosophy without any gaps
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 16/11/2024
Top tip to everyone pilling over from Twitter, use the Sky Follower Bridge to rebuild your network here on BlueSky, but keep running it every few days as more and more come over. Please share and help everyone re-connect and keep re-connecting.
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Sky Follower Bridge
Instantly find and follow the same users from your 𝕏 followers on Bluesky
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West England Bylines @westenglandbylines.co.uk · 15/11/2024
Where solar power and people power come together. Real progress is being made in Bristol . Michelle Cook finds out more westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/environ...
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From the Ground Up: Bristol Energy Co-operative
Where solar power and people power come together. Real progress is being made in Bristol
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Monsieur Prepuce @monsieurprepuce.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Morning all. I noticed many followers from familiar accts on Elmo's Kitchen. I appreciate all the follows. If I haven't followed back then hit me up / remind me. Cheers, MP.
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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Can we get this save our NHS starter pack followed by all? Please share like mad! We MUST save our NHS 💙 go.bsky.app/QSu8Fdi
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
🔥 European Movement UK has now landed on Bluesky. I think that this feels like our natural home. Please do follow AND SHARE!
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Wonder of Science @wonderofscience.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
This is what happens when you wring out a wet towel while floating in space. Credit: CSA/NASA
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Colin Sydes aka Lord SydesJokes #FBPE #FBR #Resist #Resistance @sydesjokes.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
First SydesJokes #FBPE Starter Packer with 50 people and more will be added go.bsky.app/Va6QKQW
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Patients should know who is and is not a doctor. If you are not yet familiar with the Physician Associates scandal watch this update youtu.be/zgBrrMmx4yg?...
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🚨Important update on the physician associates scandal
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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Hendrik Klaassens #FBPE #BanX #NoAfD #FBR @aurorablogspot.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Blaming foreigners for what is wrong in your own country is an old trick of populists and fascists to silence the opposition. Göring did it, Farage did it, and now Trump and his ilk are doing it - and lots of people are falling for this nonsense spread by media that are owned by sick billionaires.
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J McLaren @jmclaren.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Hook me up to this. As an avid scouring of the Thames foreshore for many years…I’ve seen the tide rise and fall dramatically so many days and wondered why on earth we weren’t harnessing this power.
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Alison writes and edits stuff @akmurray.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Anyone here concerned about making sure the best information at the time gets posted and shared about climate change / how ordinary people can be more green with what they have, right where they are? Consider joining a group, or adding me to one you've already set up. 1/2
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Hello everyone. I am now on this platform for social media. Do please repost this message so that more people can find me!
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Old Weird Scotland @weirdscotland.bsky.social · 24/12/2023
In his first hundred years of business in Scotland, Santa Claus delivered to children on Hogmanay (31st Dec), not Christmas Eve. By the 1960s, he had fully synchronised his visits and Scotland ran on the same timetable as the US and England. #OldWeirdScotland
newspaper clipping. headline : Time for Santa to make up his mind?

A furtive looking Santa is pictured
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Old Weird Scotland @weirdscotland.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
In 1840s Fife, a deserted spouse could have their marriage annulled if they set a place at the dinner table and shouted out the door for the absent spouse to come eat. After a year plus one day, they were free to marry again. #OldWeirdScotland
an engraved image of a woman, sat cross-armed at a set dinnertable, facing an empty chair.
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Introduce yourself with some jobs you've done apart from what you do now: 🇺🇸 live-in nanny in Washington DC 🍺 barmaid in lots of shady bars in Edinburgh 🌂 tour guide 🪐 planetarium presenter 🎷apprentice at a woodwind instrument repair shop (which I very almost stayed at instead of going to Uni...)
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
On the issue of the “fairness” or otherwise of the Inheritance Tax changes on farmland, this LSE Emeritus Prof of Economic Geography says the previous loopholes damaged farming and food production and the latest reform doesn’t go far enough www.ft.com/content/ab35...
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Georgina Lee @georginalee.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Hi, I'm new here. I run the FactCheck team at Channel 4 News. If you're interested in UK politics, foreign news explainers, economics, data and myth-busting, you're in luck.
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